[jiayo]

As a Canadian I don't really think Americans have really understood how upset we are. Most US-facing talk is about tariffs, but the repeated threats of annexation and taunting (Governor, 51st state, Noem's despicable actions at Haskell Library) are both enraging and terrifying. I have no intention of returning to the US for any type of tourism or business travel indefinitely. People are ensuring their flight paths to other countries do not even cross US airspace.

This audience will likely call me paranoid, or try to downplay/deflect, but we can see clearly what's going on and the gaslighting does not help.

[yodsanklai]

I think it's a very sane behavior. I used to travel regularly to the US for both work and leisure, but I'll think twice before doing it again. On the one hand, I do know lots of Americans didn't vote from Trump. A lot of those who did probably aren't necessarily bad people. But still, this country has become hostile, it's pretty hard to pretend that everything's normal.

[blooalien]

> A lot of those who did probably aren't necessarily bad people.

A lot who did are now surprised (for the second time) that Trump is bein' a total ass-hat. Learned nothing from the first time around except that he's an infallible "stable genius" what can never be wrong about anything. They're literal cult-members.